JAY CRITCHLEY
CONCEPTUAL, MULTIMEDIA, PERFORMANCE ARTist AND WRITER

Jay Critchley’s visual, conceptual and performance work and environmental activism have traversed the globe, showing and/or performing in Argentina, Japan, England, Holland, Germany, Columbia and the United States.  He has received extensive media coverage for his public proposals and interventions. In 2018 Jay gave a TEDx Talk: Portrait of the Artist as a Corporation.

Jay lives in Provincetown, Cape Cod, MA.

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The Whiteness House - tarred and feathered, a walk-in scale model of The White House created by Provincetown artist Jay Critchley, will be installed at  Bubala's by the Bay Restaurant, 183 Commercial Street, Provincetown, Ma in a novel art space under its new patio awning. The ten-day outdoor installation will be held from October 16- 25, 2020. Writers, performers, poets and others are invited to submit ideas for daily planned activities. Volunteer to staff the installation are also being recruited.
Schedule The artist is represented by AMP Gallery, 432 Commercial Street, Provincetown, where other aspects of The Whiteness House will be on exhibit.
“Our nation’s home has taken on an ominous presence with a white president who has defined much of his Presidency based on color. How white is a Whiteness House after a black President? How does a white house express its whiteness?” states Critchley.​

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THE WHITENESS HOUSE – TARRED AND FEATHERED INSTALLATION
​BUBBALA'S, PROVINCETOWN, MA
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EVENTS
October 16-25, 2020. The Whiteness House - tarred and feathered by artist Jay Critchley 
Conceptual art installation on Commercial Street in Provincetown, MA 
at Bubala’s by the Bay Restaurant,
June 26 to July 8, 2020: DEMOCRACY OF THE LAND - THE MOO MOO WORLD 1620 
AMP Gallery, Provincetown
​Re-Rooters Day Ceremony 2020
Mayflower Compact 2020
Old Glory Condoms Re-launched 2019
November 10 2020  The Re-signing of the Mayflower Compact 2020 Unveiling, Provincetown Public Library
Cure for Insomnia, short video selected for online New England Film Fest.
​June 21-July 10, 2019: Exhibition: Launching the Re-signing of the Mayflower Compact  2020, AMP Gallery, Provincetown
June 12-17, 2019: Film short, Cure for Insomnia, Provincetown In'l Film Fest
July 30, 2019: Artist Talk: Democracy of the Land, Truro Center for the Arts
TEDx Talk: A portrait of the artist as a corporation, 2018
36th Re-Rooters Day Ceremony 1/7/19
SHROUDED RAINBOW - THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE NATURAL AND CIVIC ENVIRONMENT, ​2018
People of Colors #2, AMP Gallery, Provincetown, 2018
Speaker: Harvard University, Cultural & Humanitarian Cultural Agents Series, 2017
​The Whiteness House Santa Fe installation, 2017
RECENT MEDIA
​Democracy of the Land - The Moo Moo World, Provincetown Arts Magazine 2020
Provincetown Artist Jay Critchley's 'Whiteness House' sends message of race ahead of election
​Cape Cod arts: White House as art plus virtual song
Peace, Love & Soup podcast 2-14-20
The Lowdown with Ira Wood - WOMR FM 92.1 1/7/2020
Old Glory Condoms Re-launched
Jay Critchley’s Provincetown performance
JAY CRITCHLEY’S APOCALYPTIC VISION OF MAYFLOWER 400, Provincetown Banner, July 25 2019
Jay Critchley: Artist, Activist, Trickster & Shaman – A Profile
Jay speaks at AIDS Memorial dedication, June 16, 2018
​Provincetown Again Displays Solidarity, Cape Cod Times
The Rib - Santa Fe Art Institute Residencies, April 2018
Tierra Firme: Jay Critchley: Covers and Cover-Ups, by Alicia Guzman
Cape Cod Times page one, Re-Rooters Day Ceremony
​People of Colors Vs Th​e Whiteness House
​JAY CRITCHLEY, INC.​ catalog and digital download available

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